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March 17, 2013, 10:20 PM

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Jean-Louis Gassee / Monday Note:

Apple is Losing The War - Of Words — Besides its ads, Apple says very little, confident numbers will do the talking. This no longer works as others have seized the opportunity to drive the narrative. — The day before Samsung's big Galaxy S4 announcement, Apple's VP of Marketing …

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM and Slashdot. Tweets: @karaswisher

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Ceding the Crown — So Phil Schiller gave a second eve-of-Galaxy-S4-launch interview, this one to Reuters reporter Poornima Gupta. The headline ("Apple's Schiller Blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy's Eve") is spot-on, but here's the second paragraph:

More: Mobile Industry Review, Forbes and asymco

Tweets: @qthrul and @karaswisher

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Following Samsung Galaxy S4 launch, Apple debuts ‘Why iPhone’ webpage to tout why people love iPhone, slam Android — On the eve of Samsung's Galaxy S4 launch, Apple and its marketing chief Phil Schiller spoke with mainstream news publications to slam Android and iPhone competitors.

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Lenovo ThinkPad T431s Ultrabook: refined exterior, widened trackpad, shipping in April for $949 — Lenovo's taking the wraps off of its newest ThinkPad here at Engadget Expand, but in fact, the T431s represents more than just a minor spec bump. It's actually the first ThinkPad borne out of Lenovo's latest …

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Kim Zetter / Wired:

Crooks Spy on Casino Card Games With Hacked Security Cameras, Win $33M — A high-roller and hacker accomplices made off with about $33 million after they gamed a casino in Australia by hacking its surveillance cameras and gaining an advantage in several rounds of high-stakes card games.

More: Naked Security, The Register and Geek.com

CBS News:

The Innovator: Jack Dorsey — Jack Dorsey is one of the biggest and most ambitious innovators of our time. His name doesn't resonate like Jobs or Bezos or Zuckerberg, but his innovations do. His low profile may have a lot to do with his personality. Dorsey describes himself …

More: Business Insider and CBS News. Tweets: @jeneps

David Carr / New York Times:

Barry Diller's Aereo Service Challenges Cable Television — The table in the conference room on the sixth floor of the IAC headquarters in Manhattan was a portrait of organization. In front of each of the 10 chairs was a leather case holding a fresh tablet of paper, with a sharpened pencil placed above it, just so.

Tweets: @joshglasser and @brianstelter

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Facebook's new temporary dev office in Vancouver underscores how broken US immigration policy remains — According to the Vancouver Sun, Facebook will hire up to 150 developers for a new temporary office in the city. The hires will be freshly graduated engineering students.

More: Vancouver Sun and GeekWire

Reuters:

Panasonic considers exiting from plasma TVs: Nikkei — (Reuters) - Japan's Panasonic Corp is leaning towards withdrawing from plasma television operations as part of a downsizing of its television business over three years starting next fiscal year, the Nikkei newspaper said on Monday.

More: Engadget, ZDNet and The Verge

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

More than 500,000 Google Reader users flock to Feedly in two days — Google's controversial decision to shut down Google Reader on July 1st has left its users searching for a new news-collecting homeland, and we now have an idea of the scale of the RSS diaspora.

More: Building Feedly, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, Geekosystem, WinBeta and T3 News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Opens Early Adopter Club To Reignite Mobile Experimentation — Ditching HTML5 cost Facebook the flexibility to tinker and quietly try out design or feature changes on subsets of users. But now it can experiment again. Thursday Facebook launched a beta club offering some Android users early access to new features.

More: Tech Improvement, Tech Shout! and digitaltrends.com

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Kinect for Windows SDK to get hand-recognition, 3D-modeling on March 18th — We've been expecting Microsoft to release an update to the Kinect SDK for Windows that would enable both hand recognition and real-time 3D modeling, and today we finally have a date: verision 1.7 will be released on Monday, March 18th.

More: ReadWrite, Engadget, MSDN Blogs, BetaNews, WinBeta, T3 and Joystiq

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